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The politically-sensitive USA trade deficit with China widened by $1.0 billion to $33.6 billion, and with the European Union (EU) by $0.9 billion to $13.5 billion. Through July the deficit with China climbed to $204.2 billion, almost 7 percent higher than the first seven months of 2016. President Donald Trump has pushed Canada and Mexico to renegotiate the NAFTA pact, which he argues encourages American companies to relocate to Mexico.

Institutional shareholders Royal London Asset Management, Standard Life Aberdeen and Hermes Investment - along with three shareholder advisory bodies - had voiced their opposition to Mr Hellawell ahead of the meeting. It is the third time in 12 months a vote on Hellawell's position as chairman has been held and the first time he has been backed by independent shareholders.

Data released from Baker Hughes showed that the number of active U.S. oil rigs unchanged for the week, but the company said it could not verify rig counts across 47 counties in South Texas because of the impact of Hurricane Harvey (and that's where the Texas oil shale business is concentrated, especially in the Eagle Ford shale in the southeast).

Investors clearly like the news, sending Kohl's shares up 4% in morning trading, in the belief that the Amazon spaces could spur traffic. Amazon will have space dedicated to its devices, smart home products and accessories in 10 Kohl's stores in Chicago and Los Angeles, Kohl's said Wednesday.

It has a 72.02 P/E ratio. Since May 4, 2017, it had 1 insider purchase, and 3 insider sales for $7.87 million activity. 123 shares valued at $223,610 were sold by Tans Gillian on Monday, May 15. Pinnacle Ltd has invested 0.05% of its portfolio in Melrose Industries PLC (LON:MRO). Shareholders of record on Thursday, August 31st will be given a dividend of GBX 2.50 ($0.03) per share on Monday, October 2nd.

The BSE market breadth, however, was slightly bullish with 1,330 advances and 1,249 declines. The BSE Midcap and Smallcap indices gained 0.17 percent and 0.35 percent, respectively. During the day's trade, the Indian rupee strengthened by three paise to 64.10 against the U.S. dollar from its previous close at 64.13. Collectively these seven stocks erased off over 150 points while Reliance Industries , Kotak Mahindra Bank , HDFC , HDFC Bank and Maruti Suzuki helped to trim the losses.

Tiny pieces of plastic have been found in drinking water on five continents - from Trump Tower in NY to a public tap on the shores of Lake Victoria in Uganda - posing a potential risk to people's health, researchers said on Wednesday. 'It could be that they are fibres from synthetic clothes and that the friction of daily life sends them into the air and they are then deposited into reservoirs, lakes and streams that feed cities as tap water.

Only priority boarding customers will be allowed to bring two carry-on bags on the aircraft. While Ryanair is dropping fees for larger bags from $45 (£35) to $33 (£25) to encourage customers to check more of their luggage, the budget carrier will also raise the check-in bag allowance from 33 pounds to 44 pounds.

The Canadian Dollar also surged to a 2 year high against its US Dollar counterpart following the announcement of the BoC's decision to raise rates, the exchange rate dropped almost 3 cents in a matter of seconds. That followed unexpectedly healthy growth in the first three months of 2017 and exceeded the Bank of Canada's projections. Fixed-rate mortgages have been moving higher and couple that with denial - a firm belief that this low interest rate environment will last indefinitely - this ...

Over the past 50 days, EnLink Midstream Partners, LP (NYSE:ENLK) stock was -6.89% off of the high and -7.52% removed from the low. As of the latest earnings report the EPS was $0.84 and is expected to be $0.66 for the current year with 38,452,000 shares now outstanding.